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BNFL is wanted for crimes against the planet and the people of Sellafield

Fishermen in front of the Mihama nuclear plant after the 1991 accident at the plant. Now a second accident has claimed the lives of at least four workers. Alternative energy sources like wind and solar would have avoided this pollution and death. Enlarge Image

Accident at Japan nuclear plant

A fatal accident has killed at least four people at the Mihama nuclear power plant in Japan. There was no leak of radioactivity but it is the deadliest accident in a catalogue of nuclear scandals in Japan.

We are selling out our planet´s resources to the highest bider, it is high time we put some strict conditions on it. Enlarge Image

Who really rules our planet?

As government leaders meet in Johannesburg for the second Earth Summit, we have to ask why they are bothering. If you wanted to make some changes on Sesame Street, wouldn't it make more sense to invite the writers and puppeteers to meet, rather than just the puppets? The real environmental destruction today is done by multinational corporations, which can simply move operations if one government becomes too difficult. What international body oversees them, or sets rules for their behaviour, or holds them accountable when they transgress?

Michael D. Paker, CEO of Dow Inc, is wanted for crimes against the planet. Enlarge Image

Dow is wanted for crimes against the planet

Michael D. Parker and Dow Chemical Company are corporate scoundrels of the worst kind. They were forced to clean up a toxic mess at home in the US, but won't clean up one of the deadliest chemical spills on the planet in Bhopal, India. Someone is getting away with murder. Governments must agree on legally binding rules at the Earth Summit next week to ensure sustainable development and hold corporations accountable for their actions.

Exxon's Lee Raymond is WANTED for crimes against the climate. Enlarge Image

Exxon is wanted for outrageous crimes against the planet

Lee Raymond and Exxon are the Godfathers of corporate environmental crime. They have built up an unfathomable empire at the cost of our environment. They influence governments to get their own way, leaving the charred remains of international treaties in their wake. Their head honcho Raymond knows no bounds that money can’t remove.

72% of the British public say no to nuclear power and yes to wind. Greenpeace projects poll result onto Sizewell nuclear plant in Suffolk, UK Enlarge Image

Nuclear Meltdown

The lid has finally been blown off the nuclear industry’s chamber of secrets. Coverups, bankruptcies and insolvencies, safety lapses and failures in plant security have been on the roll call in the last week alone. And all this as the most potent symbols of the industry's failure, two nuclear freighters, near the Irish Sea.

Jim Corr of Irish pop group the Corrs, takes the helm of a Greenpeace inflatable whilst lending his support to the nuclear-free seas flotilla. Enlarge Image

Sailing for our nuclear free future

As two British nuclear freighters near the Irish Sea with their deadly cargo of weapons-usable plutonium, a flotilla of small sailboats are getting into position to peacefully protest their passage.

Surrounded by Japanese police and coast guards Greenpeace inflatables protest beneath kites from the Mv Arctic Sunrise Enlarge Image

Pathway away from destruction

One of the most dangerous and unnecessary shipments ever to have taken place reached journey’s end on September 17th 2002 when it docked in the UK port of Barrow. The effect that this shipment’s 18,000 mile, 75-day passage, through some of the world’s heaviest seas had on the governments and peoples of en-route nations, and those who want to protect the fragile marine environment through which it sailed, could be likened to the running of a knife through an open wound.

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